The early history of the treatment for dehydration.
The difficulties of managing dehydration in infants, along with the special problems of infant feeding in the wake of the industrial revolution, led to the specialty of pediatrics. The scientific and clinical beginnings that preceded the specialty are reviewed; much that came later can be credited to pediatric scientists.
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Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, USA. finberg@itsa.ucsf.edu
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